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Definition: Infertility |
InfertilityNoun1. The state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "infertility" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biology & Biotechnology | By extension, the inability of embryos to develop into viable offspring. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Failure to set fruit often noted in over-strong vines. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | The diminished or absent ability to conceive or produce an offspring while sterility is the complete inability to conceive or produce an offspring. (references) |
Medicine | In general, the incapability of fertilization or reproduction. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, infertility affects about 6.1 million people in the U.S., equivalent to ten percent of the reproductive age population. (Need to verify the following statistics.) With ninety percent of cases, doctors can identify the problem; out of this, fifty percent of the cases can be corrected. Forty percent of cases with identified problems are traced to the female, the male causes thirty to fifty percent, and the remainder are shared conditions to cause the couple's infertility.
Factors that can affect female infertility include problems with:
There are various treatments for infertility, depending what the problem is. These treatments include:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Infertility."
Synonym: InfertilitySynonym: sterility (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: fertility (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unproductiveness | Noun: unproductiveness; Adjective: infertility, sterility, infecundity; masturbation; impotence; unprofitableness; (inutility). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Infertility |
| English words defined with "infertility": dysgenesis ♦ hysterosalpingogram. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "infertility": Bromocriptine ♦ Campylobacter fetus, contagious equine metritis, Cyclofenil ♦ Fertility Agents ♦ Gonadotropins, Equine ♦ Infertility, Female, Infertility, Male ♦ Kallikreins ♦ Menotropins, Mice, Obese ♦ Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome ♦ Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic, Swine Infertility and Respiratory Syndrome Virus ♦ Taylorella equigenitalis infection, Tritrichomonas foetus. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Untreated, chlamydia can cause severe, costly reproductive and other health problems including both short- and long-term consequences, i.e. pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), infertility, and potentially fatal tubal pregnancy.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | The infertility can be either temporary or permanent. (references) | |
It is considered one of the three major causes of female infertility. (references) | ||
Damage to the ovaries may result in infertility, the inability to become pregnant. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bahrain | Specialist clinics have been designed for obstetrics and gynecology, infertility, obesity, internal medicine, gastroenterology and diabetology, physical medicine and sports medicine, plastic and reconstructive surgery, general surgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, dentistry, ophthalmology, ear-nose-throat and psychiatry. (references) |
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| "Infertility" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Infertility" is used about 123 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 123 | 28,925 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "infertility": Female Infertility ♦ Male Infertility ♦ Swine Infertility and Respiratory Syndrome Virus. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "infertility"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | varfëri (beggary, hardship, indigence, manginess, misery, necessity, need, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, squalor, want), shterpësi (sterility), papjellori. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قحط (aridity, drought, dryness), غير مخصب (infertile), شحاحة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неплодородие, безплодие (barrenness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 贫 (Barren). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neplodnost (sterility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | inkompatibilitet (incompatibility), uforligelighed (incompatibility), tab af blomster, sterilitet (impotentia concipiendi, sterility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | infertiliteit (sterility), onvruchtbaar (agamic, barren, infertile, sexless, sterile, unfruitful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hedelmättömyys (incompatibility, sterility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stérilité, infertilité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unfruchtbarkeit (barrenness, fruitlessness, sterility, unfruitfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αγονία (sterility), αφορία (sterility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אי פוריות, צחיחות (aridity, aridness, barrenness, drought, dryness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | terméketlenség (barrenness, sterility), meddõség (barrenness, idleness, unproductiveness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kemandulan (barrenness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | infertilit (sterility), infecondit (sterility), soggetti a colatura. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 不姙 (barrenness, sterility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふに"しょう (barrenness, nonrecognition, sterility), ふに" (barrenness, new appointment, sterility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuvessoilid (barrenness, unfruitfulness), neuhroaraght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | ufruktbarhet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | infertilityay infertilidade (incompatibility). (various references) lipsã de fertilitate. (various references) стерильность (sterility), неплодородность, бесплодность (aridity, starkness). (various references) neplodnost (barrenness, sterility), jalovost (barrenness, poorness). (various references) infecundidad (barrenness, sterility). (various references) ofruktsamhet (barrenness), ofruktbarhet (aridity), infertilitet (incompatibility). (various references) verimsizlik (inefficiency, leanness, poorness, sterility, unproductiveness), kısırlık (barrenness, sterility), çoraklık (aridity, barrenness). (various references) стерильність (sterility), неродючисть. (various references) tính không m u mỡ (infecundity), sự cằn cỗi (infecundity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Infertility" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: infantility. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "infertility" (pronounced i'nferti"lutē) |
| 8 | -f er t i" l u t ē | fertility. |
| 6 | -t i" l u t ē | ductility, futility, gentility, hostility, motility, nonutility, utility, versatility, volatility. |
| 5 | -i" l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, facility, fallibility, feasibility, flammability, flexibility, fragility, gullibility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, indestructibility, inevitability, infallibility, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, nobility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, variability, viability, virility, visibility, vulnerability. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | abnormality, accountability, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, credulity, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, equality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, fidelity, finality, formality, frivolity, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, incredulity, individuality, inequality, infidelity, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, polity, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, quality, rationality, reality, seasonality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-i-i-l-n-r-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: fertility. | |
-3 letters: felinity, finitely, flintier. | |
-4 letters: fierily, firelit, flitter, flytier, inertly, intitle, lintier, littery, niftier, niftily, nitrify, nitrile, nitrite, nittier, trinity, tritely. | |
-5 letters: entity, ferity, filter, finely, finery, finite, fitter, flinty, flirty, fretty, inlier, lenity, lifter, linier, linter, litten, litter, nettly, nitery, nitril, retint, rifely, tetryl, tilter, tinier, tinily, tinter, titfer, trifle. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-i-i-l-n-r-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: antifertility. | |
+3 letters: interfertility. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 66 65 72 74 69 6C 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. ..-. . .-. - .. .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100110 01100101 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n f e r t i l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0066 0065 0072 0074 0069 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380727184867578758691 |
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